Meanwhile, the originals of the above images are more than a foot wide, and I’m still in awe. If you go to the TerraServer page I link to up there and kind of click around, to the west, you’ll find the dried-up remains of Chinatown‘s Owens Lake. Remnant waterforms. Spectral inland seas. I think hydrology is possibly the most interesting force on the planet right now. If it was up for the NFL draft, it’d be quarterback. Hydrology : the planet :: Vince Young : NFL.